Timothy J. Gardner, M.D., a nationally noted heart surgeon and leader in cardiovascular medicine, is medical director of Christiana Care¿s Center for Heart & Vascular Health. Under his leadership in fiscal year 2008, Christiana Care'sCenter for Heart & Vascular Health completed 764 open-heart cases, 4,727 cardiac catheterization procedures, more than 58,628 diagnostic and interventional procedures and more than 17,500 cardiac rehabilitation monitored visits.
Dr. Gardner is immediate past president of the American Heart Association.
Dr. Gardner was chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery for the University of Pennsylvania Health System from 1993-2003. He is a clinical professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and a former William M. Measey Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Background

He is a graduate of Georgetown University Medical School and received his postgraduate training in surgery at Johns Hopkins, with a final period of training in cardiac surgery in Auckland, New Zealand. He was a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, serving in the U.S. Army Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1968 to 1970.